On this week's podcast we're having a discussion with Derek Bambauer, associate professor of law at University of Arizona. We'll be discussing the war between content providers and content pirates in light of the recent closure of Usenet's two primary indexers.

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About This Episode

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This week is a special episode. We actually didn't plan on putting together an episode at all, but in light of the closure of NZBMatrix and Newzbin2, the two primary indexers of Usenet content, we thought it would be worth talking about in a bit more detail. To give us a legal context, we asked Derek Bambauer to join us. This episode consists of a discussion with Derek about the past, present, and future of the entertainment industry and how technology isn't far off from reshaping the landscape of film and television for the foreseeable future.

What's Coming Next?

On December 20th, 2012, we're going to have a live show on Google Hangouts. We'll post more information about this show next week, but we're planning to get started around 11:00 AM Pacific time. If you've got questions you'd like to ask us live, save it for the 20th. We won't be able to get to everyone, but if we have a lot of awesome leftover questions we'll try to get to them when the podcast returns to its standard format after the New Year. After the 20th, we'll be taking a break for the holidays but we'll be back in 2013.

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